dozens of hostages seized by kata linked to insurgents are weak for a dad on jiri following a botched rescue attempt by the country's military. and the crisis in algeria causes david cameron to once again delay a much anticipated speech on the u.k.'s future within the european union. and as israel gets ready to go to the polls prime minister of venom and netanyahu struggles to maintain support for his reelection bid.

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshing welcome to the program. all geria says there are a number of dead and injured following a hostage rescue attempt at a gas plant near its border with libya and there are also reports indicating that at least thirty captives and eleven militants have been killed in the operation by the country's military al qaeda linked group occupy the plan on wednesday claiming the hostage capture which included manning foreigners was in retaliation for french military intervention in neighboring mali french president francois hollande said this situation means that the operation to oust islamic militants is justified fighting continues across mali with terrorists increasing its presence on the ground to fourteen thousand troops the e.u. has pledged to help train a mali an army while the u.s. also promised logistical support but stopped short of the point of its own military author and historian gerald horne says the fall out from the week old intervention

could eventually backfire and result in president alone being forced out of office . what mr old law is doing is enlarging and worsening an existing problem what's striking is that mr z. had initiated this intervention in libya and part raises for it being a popularity ratings i think that it's fair to say that mr mccoll on this intervention in mali for similar reasons the problem is that when the body bags returning to paris the populace will turn on mr along with a vengeance and he will be driven from office just as surely as sort of the what's driven from office i think that this war and the consequences of want to spread it into neighboring countries is going to jeopardize french uranium interest in nigeria it's going to jeopardize the kinds of agreements that france and the other north atlantic countries have with algeria in terms of natural gas so i think that

if they had thought through what they were getting themselves into they would not have moved in the direction of an invasion i dare say that this french intervention in mali will end in tears meanwhile the ongoing situation in algeria has caused british prime minister david cameron to indefinitely postponed his much anticipated speech on the u.k. status within the e.u. accepts released from the statement say there is a danger that europe will fail and that there is a looming possibility of britain leaving the blog and last reforms are carried out r.t. sara for a says by delaying the speech cameron has put himself into an increasingly tight spot. this long awaited fourth speech is now being put back the prime minister saying there this is cheetah the own growing crisis at the algerian gas plant now obviously we see the situation there developing and the prime minister saying that it's a very dangerous very fluid situation but i think the prime minister really in this

circumstance assert himself for a full with these lessons of wide open to the criticism here we saw this speech arranged through right back last year around gene time it's been put back four times already. various different reasons at one point the prime minister having jokes comparing the speech to tantric sex saying if you know the best so when it actually comes you know that's not looking particularly funny anymore and people wondering when if indeed it will ever come well everyone was looking for from this speech was clarity leadership over this issue we've been speaking to a lot of the british public over the past few weeks and they're very confused about what cameron stance is on europe one n.p.r. was speaking to said this why this is the tail that's wagging the dog that this hard core group of euro skeptics within his own party were really dictating the prime minister's actions and i think you've really got the option really pretty to do so from the corner where he's got to have

a referendum after an election and he will try a school for politicians to use through paper over the cranks to give a boost to them to them and say that we now are looking for europe to make a response to our proper requests for david cameron as prime minister he's definitely in a tight spot right now he's he's not looking particularly strong he's not looking like he's led the way and so you know he is a lot of trouble here we seem to speak today once again so the uncertainty continues i'm afraid. sarah ferguson now cameron's critics say he may be taking britain to the edge of an economic cliff to make predictions the u.k. could be falling out of the top ten economies and we report on that later in the program. pakistan's government has reached a deal with a muslim cleric to hold mass protests in the capital islamabad tens of thousands of qadri supporters and of the sit in after he convinced authorities to dissolve

parliament before march ahead of elections after that voting should take place within ninety days and they've also agreed to discuss electoral reforms however had raised him and that the army be consulted on the structure of the interim administration was rejected political chaos and growing fury over widespread corruption has also deepen after the government clashed with the country's top court its order to arrest the prime minister over a corruption case has been rejected fessor paul sheldon food from california state university says message raises a lot of questions. his. campaign talks very big he says he believes in supporting minority rights you know i haven't heard him can do only murders. shiites by in large numbers he claims to have been a professor of constitutional law and yet he says that only he can understand what the prophet mohammed meant and this is

a man thought of trying to do actions the people who wrote pakistan is always dependent upon the west particularly the british but there are programs too such as america. and to have the indication you have both international support and some money behind it is always a good indicator when you're running against the wealthiest families and part of the earth the euro action results don't come out the way he wants you to claim it was a rupture of the process the only a man such as him could run a real islamic democracy process but instead it is already an islamic republic. news to be very precise about why he regards it as a failure or simply citing corruption is not enough. mass rally staged by the influential cleric in pakistan of only added to pakistan's uncertainty seeking electoral reforms democracy and bar on corruption to hear conwy has called for

revolution before the deal was reached r.t.s. talked to a slew simply to protest leader who told us exactly what he means by that. when i say evolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries there will need to be dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and that people stood up against that in iran there was it when alkie rule of shan shah the people stood up against their. party stanek is bit different there is no one else to me that monadic elul nor the military dictatorship here is electoral authority did it when he gave his electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in decided neither in political field nor in social feed nor in economic field not democracy so this is a law lessness total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation single country in the whole

muslim world and in a nuclear capability and if the same situation continues that would be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so our this martin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world the whole turd world and developing muslim countries the have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. well you can see our interview with pakistan's doppler going full at r.t. dot com here's a glimpse of what else you can find here today so watch on line of food it's showing how fire man was almost knocked from his ladder advice huge slab of snow after his lucky escape he continued to save the lives of a woman and a baby trapped in the apartment on our website or today. also online. at the soon to be beautiful top vatican clary graces the cover of vanity fair for more

on this story and much more authority. now i had out of the twenty second of january election israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has to deal with plummeting poll figures with manny viewing his politics as not radical enough although still expected to return into office netanyahu is losing supporters to his former right wing allies as artie's policy or in their reports. he's the surprise success story in campaign one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for his room enough to be used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a lift wing person driving the bus. as far as being i mean. yes

even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a right wing leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know one never happen in the sopranos will never return for another season. marker on our pro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have been a jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say little yahoo while still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not on your hands we could list has

grown even more right wing with ready cars like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would retain a part it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose eternal capital. but what will be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves about the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing space among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago and. we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left. a leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country

and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to the bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians a limited self rule in the west and while that might put seem a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact in a time yahoo is acutely aware of policy r.t. television while just days left until israel had to poll to choose its next parliament r.t. will be closely following the election campaign and vote for vida in coverage. how will tension with to run develop will settle that expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides what are three.

now still and shambles survivors of a tell we're super storm sandy are struggling to get their lives back to normal and they say they're getting a little help from us and the worry is we'll be telling the stories after the break . played. do we speak your language anything about the will not advance. the music programs in documentaries and spanish matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles the stories. you hear.

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choose the stories that impact the. true spirit access to. welcome back you're watching our team now the u.k.'s financial woes could well drag on for decades to come with a country predicted to fall out of the top ten economies by twenty fifty and that's one head turning possibility set out in the report on global growth by consulting giant fries what house covers professor of economics rodney shakespeare says there are some basic steps the k. can take to skate the doldrums. when you've controlled the banks because that rages the out of control you say let them lend their own money and interest to do what they like but to open up an interest free loan supply from the national bank that's the one thing being a king will not do and which the present government will not allow because it that

smashes the power of the commercial banks of the present european community structure is obviously just and has no longer taking any concern of the of the the political interests and reactions of the peoples of europe it's not just the u.k. it's the people of france is the people of holland it's the people of ireland until they were deceived it's all the peoples of europe they want a new relationship in the political structure a probe into the activities of russia's former defense minister has led to a criminal case being launched to tell he's there to cough will be investigated over allegations of abuse of power the probe has already revealed that some top the fans officials ordered soldiers to landscape the guard this avocation base belonging to the former defense minister's brother in law and the fans ministry has been at the center of a major corruption scandal for several months now until he called lost his job in a van and has been a witness in

a number of fraud cases involving his former subordinates. and look at some other stories from around the world a string of roadside bombings and shared muslim regions of iraq has raised the death toll to at least sixty people since wednesday an extended a deadly wave of bloodshed into a second day the deadliest of the attacks targeting shia muslim areas killed at least seven people after two car bombs exploded near shia pilgrims traveling to a shrine in a city north of baghdad although there was no immediate claim of responsibility such attacks are tactic of sunni insurgency king to undermine the shiite led government. saif gadhafi the son of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi has appeared in court for the first time since his capture more than a year ago he's facing charges of putting the country's security in danger and attempted jailbreak the current trial in libya is thought to be linked to deal with international criminal courts that once him extradited to the hague to face trial

on war crimes saif a prominent political figure during the period of his father's leadership was arrested in a van der two thousand and eleven when he tried to flee to neighboring country. there's. a huge bushfire is burning out of control across the state of victoria the blaze that started in a national park destroyed up to twenty five thousand hectares and is now predicted to move fast in a northeasterly direction carried by strong wind several homes have been raised and manny fires still remain on contain fears of more to come the wave of bushfires history a nearly two weeks ago sparked by soaring temperatures that reached over forty degrees centigrade. the u.s. northeastern states ravaged by superstorm sandy in late october have been promised over fifty billion dollars aid by lawmakers the senate has yet to approve the

measures passed earlier this week in the house of representatives despite many opposing the bill now while politicians are a bigger ring over cash the storm survivors are left with almost no support and r.t. is an associate you're going to now reports. a gorgeous beach turned coast area the rockaways in queens one of the places hit hardest by hurricane sandy two and a half months ago still in shambles today miles and miles of devastated businesses residential buildings and houses like this one a place some family probably used to call home now almost literally hanging by a thread with almost zero chance of ever being rebuilt few locals on the collapsed boardwalk most of them in dire need of help this man who chose to remain anonymous to to government related work survived hurricane katrina his hopes of recovery post

sandy are meager never going to move you still go parts of alabama louisiana mississippi where it got hit with katrina. been touched yet after sandy hit and lead october he spent over a month with no electricity heat or hot water and thirty degree weather raymer three times i feel the creation of three times i got politicians have their per hour he. the folks here that put him in office the least on the a list money looks better in your pocket that is spending it on something that may get washed away again i had to replace my. water heater retired local roberta hof was currently burning building her walls floors emma stairs says the destruction after the hurricane has been immense we don't have a movie theater we don't have the hospital it's gone the banks and finally opening now it's two and a half months it looks like here as after a war or after no in afghanistan or something. and most of the help in hurricane

affected areas has come from volunteers i didn't see too much of the red cross to be truth it was volunteers who have often been affected by sandy themselves like ayman use of from staten island actually it was like a foot on top of it that's how much it was the water his house deemed unsafe after the hurricane is about to be demolished the only think we need is the plants the fund is not there to get you know we we get in like two percent it's where we're going to get the ninety percent that's a mystery we need a check from god that's what we for a month and a half a man lived in this tent where he also set up a help center for the community somewhere a lot of people coming here still six seven hundred people. a day six seven hundred yes yes. all of these people victims of sandy everybody around here go up to them they'll tell you the same thing they said you know they handed me a sandwich and a blanket and i was in water up to my chest and they said hey see you later oh by

the way i want to exit the truck occupy sandy a child of the occupy wall street movement has been a big part of the recovery effort to even praised by the n.y.p.d. what we have is a lot of people coming in here and not knowing where to turn and some of them are in tears and you know it's very hard to tell them that help is coming and you hear all this talk about the nine billion fifty one doing it that would be a big help if it actually got to communities while politicians seem to have perfected the skill of arguing over how much cash to spend on relief aid getting money and help to ordinary people who needed right now is clearly a skill that is yet to be learned just as you churkin our. new york. russia's warning that a currency world war is looming for the global economy the concerns were sparked by japan's move to lower the value of the yen and pursuit of better exports causing fears of a massive chain reaction as other nations do the same artes europe is going off as

the story. an economy not so far away that actually the global economy is on the verge of a currency war allow me to paint a quick picture for you in japan where the newly elected prime minister has been pushing for a more aggressive central bank policy has been dropping the yen went down by eleven percent since december meanwhile in europe the euro is rising and that's right despite the debt and eurozone crisis austerity measures and so on the euro grew by seven percent in the last six months and experts say europe has fired the first shell e.u. financial authorities warn the rise of the euro is threatening the economy so it is possible it will be deliberately dropped meanwhile across the atlantic the united states has been printing blocks for the last five years to support of markets but it also makes the dollars cheaper in washington has been looking over the shoulder and china which was the majority of u.s. foreign debt and beijing is also accused of holding back the u. one the reason why they do that is that one currency is dropped to the export

becomes cheaper making the country more competitive obviously that's not greeted with applause by its competitors other countries which we tallied by dropping the very currencies so it's like a domino effect and the last time a major currency war happened was during the great depression in the one nine hundred thirty s. which resulted in a slowdown of international trade and all was part of the lead up to wald war two but that's not all if we explored become cheaper imports become more expensive so ordinary citizens can buy a less imported goods and traveling abroad traveling abroad rather becomes more expensive that leads to public disapproval unrest and so on that's why russia which only cheers the g twenty is so worried and it's very likely will see a major skirmish when the groups financial ministers meeting next month in moscow. well surely harold allen his pal of gas discussed the outlook for russia's foreign policy to scare.

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hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle russia's foreign policy in two thousand and thirteen what can we expect what about the so-called reset with the united states will international law be even less relevant than last year. to discuss russia's foreign policy in two thousand and thirteen i'm joined by. he is the editor in chief of rushing global affairs marks about that he is a senior lecturer in research or international relations at moscow same university and dimitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with the voice of russia radio station all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want to go do you think two thousand and thirteen holds for russia's foreign policy and right now it's a very turbulent time as you can remain turbulent or yes it will remain turbulent maybe it will be even more turbulent than no fortunately the syrian cry.